Diary of a Network Geek

Not even shredding is safe enough anymore.

A long, long time ago, I argued that people with enough time could reassmble shredded documents. That was, unfortunately, proven true by the Iranians in the US Embassy. But, now, you don’t even need that much time or individual human resources. According to this story on The New York Times, there are a growing number of high-tech ways to reassmble shredded documents. To those of use who live in Houston, home of the Enron Scandal, that takes on a special significance. It seems they now have a program that does, essentially, “edge matching” and connects scanned pieces of shredded documents together via software. Basically, it’s a program to do jigsaw puzzles at a very high-speed. Keep that in mind if you think your documents are safe after they’ve been shredded.
And, one of the biggest firms offering this service is ChurchStreet Technology, who are based out of Houston. I bet they’re booked working on the Enron stuff for years.

Easier living through technology!

The Wall Street Journal On-Line has an article about how to be a high-tech slacker.
Okay, first of all, I was a little shocked to see the Journal running this kind of story. Second, I was suprised that people do this so much! Especially in this economy!! Here I am trying to find more things to do at work so that I can actually be usefull and all these people are out there slacking. Where did my parents go wrong?
Anyway, if one were to do this, there’s lots of high-tech ways to make it look like you’re working. The Journal has a list of things to use to make it look like you’re working, when you’re not.

Dunno, this just seemed like a good Friday story to put up here.
Enjoy.